Sprint Wireline Discussion

[mhammett]

Verizon landline will not compete with AT&T.

 

AT&T has fiber all over.

 

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[mhammett]

Never trust anyone in a retail store about anything.

 

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[chamb]

Never trust anyone in a retail store about anything.

 

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This is generally good advice, however, you will find a few store reps that are very good.  You just have to be smart enough to know which ones are knowledgeable & trustworthy and which ones are full of crapola.

[CAREND]

This is generally good advice, however, you will find a few store reps that are very good.  You just have to be smart enough to know which ones are knowledgeable & trustworthy and which ones are full of crapola.

 

At that point, you yourself are more knowledgeable then the staff and their information is null.

[Mobilesolutions]

He always goes off-topic.  I'm down to see these larger network speeds delivered to cities for their use to all of it's residents.  This level of speed could easily be utilized by a large city, or maybe by a small consortium of people at greater distance to the hub.

 

 

You can fix that by blackmailing the local government officials with pictures of them holding a cat by it's tail.  That'll learns them.  But no really, your best bet to change the oligopoly is to inform the locals that your elected officials are not looking to save them money and allow competition.  My HOA is doing the same thing right now.

 

Hmmmm, exactly my plan

 

Not so much "speed", but to bring large data center bandwidth into the cities.  It equates back to speed however, as this is BROADband we are talking about. 

 

According to the person at the AT&T store across the street from my house, Comcast owns all the fiber in this area and has an aggressive ad campaign that has buried any reason for AT&T to invest in putting fiber down to support u-verse and their high speed Internet. As far as Verizon, they made a deal to offer Verizon wireless as a part of comcast's bundled services for a quadruple play home phone, cable, Internet and wireless deal to increase market dominance for Verizon wireless and Comcast both but as part of that, they can't compete with their own FiOS services. It seems besides cell service, there is little competition in the telco business overall.

basically bull$hit..

At that point, you yourself are more knowledgeable then the staff and their information is null.

If you have found your way to the S4gru forum, you know more than anyone inside the retail store. 

[mhammett]

Neo Telecoms got a high profile metro customer in its Parisian home turf. The French metro fiber and hosting company is supplying Sprint with a DWDM solution. Sprint is using the bandwidth to bring its IP backbone into a key data center. It’s nice to see Sprint expanding a bit on the wireline side in the wake of the Softbank deal.

 

http://www.telecomramblings.com/2013/09/metro-roundup-us-signal-neo-unsi-integra-tw-telecom/

[Nickel]

 

Neo Telecoms got a high profile metro customer in its Parisian home turf. The French metro fiber and hosting company is supplying Sprint with a DWDM solution. Sprint is using the bandwidth to bring its IP backbone into a key data center. It’s nice to see Sprint expanding a bit on the wireline side in the wake of the Softbank deal.

 

What exactly is Sprint doing here? I get that they're connecting with a data center in France but what does this mean?

[mhammett]

What exactly is Sprint doing here? I get that they're connecting with a data center in France but what does this mean?

 

Better connectivity for anyone on the Sprint network to\from the Paris area. This applies to enterprise customers as well as wireless customers.

[Nickel]

Better connectivity for anyone on the Sprint network to\from the Paris area. This applies to enterprise customers as well as wireless customers.

Paris must have a lot Data centers. 

[mhammett]

Paris must have a lot Data centers. 

 

It does have a lot, but not significantly different than most major towns.  www.datacentermap.com www.peeringdb.com

[Nickel]

It does have a lot, but not significantly different than most major towns.  www.datacentermap.com www.peeringdb.com

Then do you think is just the first step for a Europe wide expansion?

[mhammett]

They already have a global network. Its just been through over ten years of neglect, so they need to catch up.

 

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[bigsnake49]

They already have a global network. Its just been through over ten years of neglect, so they need to catch up.

 

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I awlays thought that they need to either invest in it and let it compete or spin it off. Inparticular I thought they should have acquired some metro fiber companies like twtelecom, etc. I wanted to see them provide an end to end solution for cloud proviers, CDNs, etc. Their flirtation with the cable cos did not go very well.

[Deval]

I awlays thought that they need to either invest in it and let it compete or spin it off. Inparticular I thought they should have acquired some metro fiber companies like twtelecom, etc. I wanted to see them provide an end to end solution for cloud proviers, CDNs, etc. Their flirtation with the cable cos did not go very well.

 

They are working on that now. Cloud and such is part of the product portfolio now. Offerings such as Sprint Complete Collaboration, Sprint IaSS, etc. 

[bigsnake49]

They are working on that now. Cloud and such is part of the product portfolio now. Offerings such as Sprint Complete Collaboration, Sprint IaSS, etc. 

 

That's good to hear! I have not been engaged on the spec/RFP business lately (last couple of years) but a few years ago they just seemed discombobulated and disinterested. I hope they get involved in the whole OTT video revolution.

Edited October 7, 2013 by bigsnake49

[Deval]

That's good to hear! I have not been engaged on the spec/RFP business lately (last couple of years) but a few years ago they just seemed discombobulated and disinterested. I hope they get involved in the whole OTT video revolution.

 

http://shop.sprint.com/mysprint/shop/solution/landing_page.jsp?pageId=ecomm_biz_landing_convergence_landing&INTNAV=ATG:HE:Converged

 

 

Thing's have changed now.

[mhammett]

Any US purchase will be small or expensive. Europe is a better target for fiber acquisition.

 

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[mhammett]

Is there more money to be made on selling enterprise access or reducing backhaul costs? That'll dictate US direction.

 

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